Swedish police said Thursday they met a scene resembling "an inferno" when they arrived at the scene of country's worst mass shooting that left 10 dead plus the gunman.
Regional police chief Lars Wiren said officers sent to the adult education centre in Orebro, west of Stockholm, told reporters they were faced with "dead people, injured people, screams and smoke". Anna Bergkvist, who is heading the investigation, said they were still working to pin down a motive for Tuesday's massacre, which has sent shockwaves across the Nordic country.
We don't have an answer yet," she said. Broadcaster TV4 published a video filmed by a student hiding in a bathroom in which shots can be heard outside and a person can be heard shouting: "You will leave Europe!
Bergkvist told AFP that there were "multiple nationalities, different genders and different ages" among those who were killed.
The victims have not all been identified yet, according to police. The Syrian embassy expressed "its condolences and sympathies to the families of the victims, among them Syrians," in a post on its Facebook page late on Wednesday. Wiren told reporters that officers got the impression that "the shooting started being directed at police when they entered the school instead of students and staff".
